diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 349d571ad..af4b3de75 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ incremental = false
 
 # Optimize release builds
 [profile.release]
-panic = "abort"   # Strip expensive panic clean-up logic
+panic = "unwind"  # Sadly we need unwind to avoid unexpected crashes on third party crates
 codegen-units = 1 # Compile crates one after another so the compiler can optimize better
 lto = true        # Enables link to optimizations
 opt-level = "s"   # Optimize for binary size